Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

This about sums up what’s going on regarding “university indoctrination”. #indoctrination #highereducation #highered #education #EducationMatters #philsky

16 astonishing images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards www.popsci.com/environment/...

Rita Levi-Montalcini was raised by a strict father who disapproved of women in higher ed. She convinced him to let her study medicine. She went on to co-discover the Nerve Growth Factor. She received the Nobel Prize in 1986. She was another immigrant that gifted the US with pioneering work. 🧪

Who's at the epicenter of the Epstein files?

This female lemon shark graced us with three great passes this afternoon. We couldn’t figure out which to feature, so here’s all three. What other city but Miami can serve megafauna serving like this?? 🙌🍋🦈🍋🦈🍋🦈 #lemonshark #shark #catwalkswim #coralcity #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay

Tulip prices are falling

Breaking news: man who could end world hunger and make serious roads into contesting climate change but instead chooses to make porn-AI accessible and cheerlead for fascists can’t work out why he’s not happy. 🧐

The highlight of my week was the publication of "Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder" in @nature.com. It's a great paper that shows how conceptual changes in fundamental neuroscience - the discovery of SCAN - can improve treatment 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Now we know there’s been a secret society of evil rich men trying to run the world for their own agenda please can there be a secret society of extremely good people who are working to foil their plans and bring them to justice?

I discovered a new vantage point for the murmuration in Limerick and the starlings put on a great show this evening.

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

Elon Musk FRS just doing his best for science

A cloak of shooting stars.💫 Brush wattlebird on the swamp banksia this afternoon. 🪶

Terrific resource on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social: a publicly available resource of cis- and trans-eQTLs and an in vivo scaffold for human gene-regulatory networks 🧪🧬 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I like posting on here so I'm going to use that to help me prepare for my quals. Each week starting next week, I will post 3 threads on things I've learned in developmental biology, neuroscience/computational neuro, & math (mostly stochastic processes), on Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday evening.

Good morning . Your #FoxOfTheDay today from @ceidil.bsky.social !

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday to all who celebrate! Here is a nice Short-eared Owl that we found last month in a marsh on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. They are hard to come by.

Good article that applies to other “health influencers” even if they didn’t appear in the Epstein files My rule: be skeptical of anyone’s health advice if they have financial ties to a supplement company

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It should have been called Center for Adanced Fabrication and Sleeze. Duke shutters 3 research centers, including Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight - The Duke Chronicle share.google/uh2cLRY2Xlr6...

There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

The entire MAHA and MAGA health movement is about grift

Bezos has rejected multiple offers to buy the paper, and his CEO ignored an offer to spin off the sports and local news sections. The Epstein files provided more support for something we’ve known for quite a while: Rightwing billionaires understand that control of media outlets gives them power.

“We are in a period not of transition but of rupture. Europe will soon be fully responsible for its own security, and we’ll also have to begin thinking much more strategically about how to wield power in the world.” Excellent read:

I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

Heard an English fella saying that Irish and Jamaicans share some dialect particularities. He said "Like, when they say 'free', they both pronounce it 'tree'". Took me ages to figure out what he was trying to say himself! 😅

#Spéirghorm #Sparegollum #speirgorm

Oh would it now

Michael de Adder

I get frequent emails from people targeted by alt med types like this saying keto/MCFA can reverse Alzheimer’s, which gets people’s hopes up after a horrible diagnosis. Then I have to tell them sorry, no. It’s bullshit. Pisses me off. They just spout bollocks without consequences and people suffer.

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

This stupid lying ignorant piece of shit...

I keep thinking about this tweet.

The files show a long list of storied scientists willing to spend time with Epstein after his 2008 conviction. We wade through ‘muck’ as women in science, everyday. This is the evidence. Whatever their protestations they were entirely comfortable putting the victims to one side for financial gain.

Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.

Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases. www.ft.com/content/b474...

I hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥